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- May 2024
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www.thecrimson.com www.thecrimson.com
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Harvard psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, a co-president of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, wrote in the Boston Globe that when a university releases a political statement, “inevitably there will be constituencies who feel a statement is too strong, too weak, too late, or wrongheaded.”A university, Pinker wrote, should be “a forum for debate, not a protagonist in debates.”
Debate is to uncover the truth. If the truth is always debated, there will be no progress. Debate must be based on truth.
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- Jun 2020
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu philsci-archive.pitt.edu
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Boon, Mieke. ‘The Role of Disciplinary Perspectives in an Epistemology of Scientific Models’. Preprint, June 2020. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17272/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter.
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- Jul 2018
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aeon.co aeon.co
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In other words, there is no neutral observation.
Similar to the objectivism/subjectivism divide and social construction of truth/positivist scientific method.
Part of meditative practices is sometimes a focus of the mind, or an absence and an "insistent" self. Perhaps it's simply quieting part of the questioning mind in order to make room for a better side, but maybe it's about removing one's preconceived notions.
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The implication (contrary to psychophysics) is that mind-to-world processes drive perception rather than world-to-mind processes.
Maybe both? Causal feedback.
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